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Asylum’s Band Excitation Technique Grants Awarded

Photonics.comMar 2010
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., March 29, 2010 — Asylum Research, manufacturer of scanning probe and atomic force (SPM/AFM) microscopes, has announced eight new grants for early adopters to explore the capabilities and applications of a new band excitation (BE) technique. The R&D100 Award-winning BE method is a fast and sensitive technique that allows mapping of conservative interactions, nonlinearities and energy dissipation of materials on the nanoscale, and shows great promise for understanding and mitigating energy losses in magnetic, electrical and electromechanical processes and technologies.

“We at Asylum Research, along with BE inventors Stephen Jesse and Sergei Kalinin at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), are excited about the quality of the proposals submitted for our grant program. In particular, we are excited about the increase in application areas. BE was born to improve piezoresponse force microscopy, but has spread to very diverse areas from polymers, to biology and battery technology. We look forward to working closely with this excellent group of researchers to advance the BE technique and its applications,” said Roger Proksch, president of Asylum Research.

The use of atoms, molecules and molecular-scale structures to enhance existing technology and develop new materials and devices. The goal of this technology is to manipulate atomic and molecular particles to create devices that are thousands of times smaller and faster than those of the current microtechnologies.